Mark M.

We won $40,000 at hackathons without writing a single line of code. A few months ago, that would’ve sounded ridiculous. Now it’s normal if the setup is good. The code wasn’t the hard part.
 The hard part was giving the agent the right tools, the right context, and an environment it could actually work in. We spent most of the hackathon on the idea, the scope, and the setup. The code came after. @MongoDB was a big part of why we could iterate that fast. I’m going to write more about the setup behind this @oscrhong @_javokhir 🚀🚀

@AriesTheCoder @trq212 @Amank1412 Those fkers don't ban my $200 account at least 😂

@markmdev @trq212 @Amank1412 Those fkers won't care about you either bro haha. That's not the problem mang - problem is on our side mang. First, you get the followers. Then you get attention. Then you get the help. 😅

I just got banned from Claude Code So now I have to go back to the primal days… either writing code by hand or using Cursor/Codex

@anth0nybeaumont @encodeclub Would love to help. I’m an 8x hackathon winner and have judged AWS x Anthropic x Datadog + AI Tinkerers x Google DeepMind recently. I’m based in the Bay Area, so remote is easiest. DM’d and emailed you.

We need hackathon judges! ❤️ @encodeclub is probably the most prolific hackathon organiser in Europe (virtual and in-person)! Hackathon judging is great for your O-I Visa applications! In return, we write a lovely recommendation letter! Email me! Anthony@encode.club

@AriesTheCoder @trq212 @Amank1412 That's not a problem, I'm pretty happy with Codex now

@markmdev @trq212 @Amank1412 That's bc you're not big enough for @trq212 to care about you lol. Welcome to the club bro.

@erd0xbc @trq212 @Amank1412 No I haven't used anything else except Claude Code. And this was a $200 subscription. I don't want to create a new account because I also had a huge history in Claude web on this account.

@markmdev @trq212 @Amank1412 Easiest thing is to create a new account and move on. Also, if you had been doing some like Opencode Oauth or something just need to stop that on the new account. A bit disappointing they can lock on legit users without clarify of what tripped the auto ban.

@erd0xbc @trq212 @Amank1412 Of course I moved to Codex immediately, I wouldn't code manually for 3 weeks 🤣 But it doesn't mean that I don't want to never use Claude now.

@markmdev @trq212 @Amank1412 Man first time this happened was a nightmare. I’ve learned to keep handy alternatives and GPT-5.4 has removed a lot of Claude dependency. Amp/Droid are strong harnesses as well to consider.

@trq212 @Amank1412 Hi @trq212 I got banned almost 3 weeks ago and everyone from Claude Team is ignoring me in DMs and in the replies under Claude's posts.

@Amank1412 hi apologies, send me your email? we're getting massive amounts of fraudulent requests so there are some false positives but we're working on bringing that down as much as possible

@oscrhong Humans are bottlenecks for the agents 🙃 I think that next, more capable and more autonomous models will push usage to the new levels

For reference, the top Straude users are pushing ~$100K/year token run rate. I thought that was pushing agents to their limits. His expectations for Nvidia engineers are 2.5x global power users. There are levels to this...

Wow Jensen just set the expectation for what serious token usage looks like... "Let's say you have a software engineer or AI researcher and you pay them $500,000 a year. At the end of the year I'm gonna ask him: 'How much did you spend in tokens?' And that person said '$5,000'. I will go ape-something-else. If that $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 worth of tokens, I am going to be deeply alarmed."

@AlexanderTw33ts Welcome to the club!

well that didn't take long

@ah20im Otherwise, Codex App is amazing. I used Claude Code for almost a year, and recently moved to Codex, and it feels sooo much better!

I use Codex App Server to programmatically send messages to my existing threads, that I create from Codex App. But the problem is, the conversation history in the Codex App doesn't update automatically. I have to reopen the app to see changes. It'd be nice to see auto-update or at least a manual refresh button, that updates current conversation. Or the opposite: I create a new thread with Codex App Server — I want to see it in Codex App right away, without restarting the app

What would you like to see in Codex?

@Forbiddentwo2 @claudeai No, what about you?

@markmdev @claudeai Did you try to handhold chastely with a wAIfu

A small thank you to everyone using Claude: We’re doubling usage outside our peak hours for the next two weeks.

@nika_arbnor @claudeai That's what I'm trying to figure out

@markmdev @claudeai What did you do to get suspended on claude lol?

@claudeai Cool, but it'd also be nice if someone responded to my appeal. I was a $200 Max subscriber, and didn't use it anywhere except Claude Code, and my account was suspended 2 weeks ago.

@AlessandroDuico 🤣

most people: "1" claude code users: "one"

@AlessandroDuico wooooah 🤯🤯🤯

we just crossed 100k page views

@nayaraisin Thank you! Appreciate you making it happen 🚀

@markmdev LOVE THIS! Three new influencers have dropped 🚀

We won $40,000 at hackathons without writing a single line of code. A few months ago, that would’ve sounded ridiculous. Now it’s normal if the setup is good. The code wasn’t the hard part.
 The hard part was giving the agent the right tools, the right context, and an environment it could actually work in. We spent most of the hackathon on the idea, the scope, and the setup. The code came after. @MongoDB was a big part of why we could iterate that fast. I’m going to write more about the setup behind this @oscrhong @_javokhir 🚀🚀

@AlessandroDuico Our first attempt at making social videos 🙃🙃

@markmdev You guys should shoot more commercials

@AlessandroDuico @trq212 @bcherny @claudeai I did, the problem is that they suspended my account with no reason 🙃

@markmdev @trq212 @bcherny @claudeai Did you use those tokens or did someone hack you?

Wow, this is amazing 🤓 @trq212 @bcherny @claudeai